Line-support.



J D. HILLIARD.

LINE} SUPPORT. APPLIOATIO! nun xo'v. 1, 1906.

914,837; Patented Mar. 9, 1909.

v with a portion of the main conductor, a pair.

UNITED STATES JOHND. HlLLIARD, OF ALBANY, NEWYORK.

LINE-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratemeaumh 9, 1909.

Application filed November 1, .1906. Serial-No, 341,635.

T b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN. D. HILLIARD, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Line-Supports, of'

which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to line su ports, and especially to the means for attaching the line conductors to the insulators.

The object of my invention is to provide means for this purpose which shall be positive and reliable in service, easy to manufacture, and economical both as .to first cost and subsequent maintenance.

Briefly stated, my invention comprises a pair of tie wires for each insulator securedto the line wire on the opposite sides thereof -by clamps. These two tie-wires ass around the neck of the insulator from t e two sides, being interlaced, that is one looped through the other. Thus, should the insulator break or the line wire break, or both, the tie-wires would still hold, and the line be maintained in the air. i

My invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side view of a single insulator,

of clamps, and the tie-wires appertaining thereto'. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the interlaced tie-wires removed.

Referring to the drawin s, A is an insulator of the type usually "employed on high tension transmission lines, having a reduced neck a above its petticoat or etticoats, and a groove 0 in its crown to receive the line I conductor 0. The conductor is held in the roove by means of the tie-wires, T and T, 00 ed around the neck a from opposite sides, an having their ends t and t secured to the line conductor by the clamps B and B, respectively.

Fig. 3 shows the tie-wires removed from the other parts, and illustrates particularly the method of interlacing them around the neck of the insulator. After examining this and the preceding two figures iinwill be sufiiciently evident that the breakage of the insulator would not affect the line suspension,

tor between the clamps.

Having described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. .A conductor, a support therefor, and means for attaching the conductor to the supportcomprising a tire-wire engaging the support and a clamp securing the tie-wire to the free ends ofthe conductor.

2. A conductor, a support therefor, and means for attaching the conductor to the support comprising a pair-of tie-wires looped around the support from oppositesides, and

ends of the tie-wires to t e conductor.

3. A conductor, a support therefor, and means for attaching the conductor to the support comprising a pair of tie-wires looped around the support from opposite sides with the two loops interlaced, and se arate clamps for attaching the tie-Wire's to t e conductor.

4. A conductor, an insulator, and two U- shaped tie-wires having their loops interends extending in o posite directions along the conductor, togeth said ends to said conductor; whereby the breakage of the insulator and of the conductor will still leave the opposite spans linked together by means of the tie-wires.

5. A conductor, an insulator, a tie wire for connecting the same, and a clam securing the free ends of the tie wire an the con- 'd.uctor in parallel relation in the same plane.

6; A conductor, an ins ator, a tie wire for connecting the same, and a clamp securing the conductor to and intermediate the free ends of the tie wire in parallel relation therewith and in the same plane.

a reduced neck connecting the same, together with a conductor supported in a groove in the top of said head, -a air of tie wires interlaced around the neo and clamps securing the" freeends of the tire wires to the conductor on opposite sides of the insulator, whereby the conductor is held down on the head of the insulator.

8. A conductor, an insulator sup orting the same, a pair of U-shaped tie-wires aving their loops interlaced around the insulator and their ends extending in opposite direcnor would the severance of the line conduc-- a pair of separate clamps for attaching the er with means securing.

laced around the insulator, and their open 7. An insulator having a body, a head and means securing said ends to the conductor on of the insulator whereby the conductor is opposite sides of the insulator. held down on the head of the insulator.

9. An insulator having a b od3; ',-a head and In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 5 a reduced neck connecting the same, in cornin presence of two witnesses.

bination with a conductor supported in a JOHN D. HILLIARD groove'in the top of said head, a pair of op- Witnesses: positely extending tie-Wires interlaced around E. EnMoNsToN, J r.,

the neck, and means securing the ends of the G. E. RUFF It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 914,837, granted March 9, 1909,

upon the application of John Hilliard, of Albany, New York, for an improvement in Line-Supports, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction,

as follows: In line 63,page 1, the words free ends of the should he stricken out I and inserted after the word the in line 62, same page; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 6th day of April, A. D., 1909.

[SEAL] O. O. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Correction in Letters Patent N0. 914 ,837.

tions therefroin, together with clamping tie-Wires to the conductor on opposite sides 1b 

